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Dorothy Gish

Born 11 March 1898 in Massillon, Ohio, USA, as Dorothy Elizabeth de Guiche.
Died 4 June 1968 in Rapallo, Liguria, Italy, of pneumonia.

Sister of actress Lillian Gish.

Married actor James Rennie, 26 December 1920; divorced, 11 October 1935.

Dorothy Gish worked onstage as a child actor with older sister Lillian. Began in films, with Lillian, in 1912 for D.W. Griffith at the Biograph studio in New York. Continued working for Griffith after he established his own production companies.

References: Website-IMDb.